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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Hey, they could have called it Hornung

Thirty days hath September,April, June, and November.February has twenty-eight alone,All the rest have thirty-one.Except Leap Year; that's the timeWhen February's days are twenty-nine.

According to the Gregorian calendar, February is the second month of the year, and also the shortest month. February has 28 days until Julius Caesar gave it 29, and 30 days every four years. According to tradition, Augustus, the Roman emperor, took one day off to add one day to August, the month named after him.

Those damn freakin' Romans.

We now have February with 28 days, and 29 on leap years. Sweden had a February 30 in 1712. They tried it but didn't didn't work out. February begins on the same day of the week as March and November in a common year, and on the same day of the week as August in a leap year.

In the northern half of the world, February is a very cold month. There are usually sunny days that show Spring is not too far off. The Southern hemisphere usually enjoy midsummer weather during February.

February Month Observances

*African American History Month (Black History Month)Remember the joke that Black History Month occurs during the shortest month on the year* AMD/Low Vision Awareness MonthMaking it very difficult to read this posting* American History MonthWhich is sponsored by National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution (who probably did not vote to share the month with Black History Month.)* Bird Feeding Month (Wild Bird Feeding Month)(most cats prefer the taste of wild bird over domesticated bird)* Cat Health Month (US National)(which is caused by cats celebrating 'Bird Feeding Month' a little too much.)* Candy and Chocolate Lovers Month(Secretly sponsored by Hallmark and the American Dental Association.* Children's Dental Health Month and Dental Month(What did I tell you.)* National Pet Dental Health Month(a slightly scary thought that All the dentist are in collusion)* Condom Month, Creative Romance Month and An Affair to Remember Month(Also secretly sponsored by Hallmark and the American Dental Association.)

The show ran during the regular TV seasons on CBS, and last show was September 10, 1957. It ran on NBC-TV in the summers of 1953 and 1954. The original title sequence has not been viewed since Private Secretary's original run.

Today in History -February 1, 1861 -Texas secedes from the Union, becoming independent once again. Since the articles of statehood passed by the U.S. Congress give Texas this right, it is perhaps the only state whose secession was legal.

I wonder what Gov. Rick Perry is going to do to celebrate? Hopefully figure out how to balance the Texas size budget shortfall.

February 1, 1893 -Inventor Thomas A. Edison opened the world's first motion picture studio, his Black Maria, (on account of its resemblance to a police patrol wagon,) in West Orange, New Jersey. The studio had a roof that could be opened to admit sunlight for illumination, and the building itself was mounted on a revolving pivot so that the structure could be constantly repositioned to keep it aligned with the sun.

Edison built a glass-enclosed rooftop movie studio in New York City and the Black Maria was closed in January 1901. Edison demolished the building in 1903. The U. S. National Park Service maintains a reproduction of the Black Maria, built in 1954 at what is now the Edison National Historic Site in West Orange.

February 1, 1896 -

The opera La Boheme, written by Giacomo Puccini, premieres in Turin, Italy.

Who know all Cher had to do to win an Oscar 93 years later, was tweeze her eyebrows and cry while she watches this opera.

February 1, 1951 -TV station KTLA broadcast of an atomic explosion was the first to be seen publicly on television.

The event was captured by an NBC camera on Mount Wilson, 300 miles away from the test blast at Frenchman Flats, Nevada.

February 1, 1964 -John Huston's elegy to the Western (scripted by Arthur Miller) The Misfits, starring Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift premiered on this date.

On the last day of filming, Clark Gable said, "Christ, I'm glad this picture's finished. She [Monroe] damn near gave me a heart attack." On the next day, Gable suffered a severe coronary thrombosis. He died in hospital from a heart attack just ten days later.

The mini series is based on the novel by Shaw; it was originally published as a short story in Playboy Magazine.

Hey so some people actually read Playboy.

February 1, 1982 -Late Night With David Letterman debuted on NBC, where it stayed for 11 years . Dave's first guests were Bill Murray and Don Herbert aka Mr. Wizard.

I wonder what ever happened to Dave?

February 1, 2003 -The Space Shuttle Columbia blows up on re-entry, with its debris hitting homes and businesses in Nacogdoches Texas.

Oops

February 1, 2004 -During the MTV-provided halftime show of the Superbowl, former boy band member Justin Timberlake conducts an obviously pre-scripted move to expose Janet Jackson's right tit, which oddly sports a ninjitsu-style throwing star as a pasty. The nation is shocked, simply shocked, that a pristine, noncommercial event such as the Superbowl could be ruined by a Jackson.

Has enough time passed that was can forgive Janet and stop noting this anniversary?

Places I go to waste time while awaiting my death

About Me

1.) What is your idea of perfect happiness? - A cocktail party with my friends,
2.) What is your greatest fear? - One of the girls getting seriously injured,
3.) What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? - Impatience with others,
4.) What is the trait you most deplore in others? - Intentional lateness,
5.) Which living person do you most admire? - Jimmy Carter,
6.) What is your greatest extravagance? -
Finding the time to write,
7.) What is your current state of mind? -
Mild Elation with a hint of creeping dread,
8.) What do you consider the most overrated virtue? - Religious Piety,
9.) On what occasion do you lie? - To protect the feeling of others,
10.) What do you most dislike about your appearance? - My expanding waistline,
11.) Which living person do you most despise? - The current Majority Leader of the Senate,
12.) What is the quality you most like in a man? - Loyalty,
13) What is the quality you most like in a woman? - Ability to laugh spontaneously at my lame jokes,
14.) Which words or phrases do you most overuse? - Like,
15.) What or who is the greatest love of your life? - Besides my children, Mrs Mao (she knows who she is.)

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